Page 6-B —Orange County Politics— (Continued from Page 1-B Goetha Whitmore, a leader in the Mebane-Oaks Road Negro community, said roughly the same thing, somewhat less flat ly. “We need a man who’ll give us justice. Lake might be a good man, but you know, a lot of people will talk one way to get in, and then change. I’d vote ( for Sanford if he -could run again." SCOTT COUNTRY Western Orange is on the northeastern edge of Kerr Scott country. “Maybe Kerr Scott’s son will run. He’s a nice fella. We’ve had a lot of dealings with him. Or Jordan. We’ve had a lot of deal ings with him. He’s a nice fella. “'But I think we'd like to have a candidate come down here to the First Baptist Church and tell us how be feels, what he thinks, what our needs are. We j PROFESSIONAL 1 1 BARBER SHOP fojjk I | Flat-Top » 2 barbers w\ vl I_ £ ? to serve yon y. | Checkers and changing location both call for wisdom before moving. 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But he said that at the mo ment the political talk he heard pitted Lake and ißennett against each other in the next guberna torial election, and nobody else had been mentioned. He admitted that Jonas had a good reputation, and added that if the Democrats didn’t give a better political performance soon, the Republicans would gain control. He expressed his own part in this potential shift ing of political tides with great circumspection: he had always voted for Democrats, but that didn’t necessarily mean - he-* couldn’t change. The State needs a progressive man, he said, "but not somebody who'll go overboard on educa tion. I’m all for education, but there are jobs you don’t need a degree for. You don’t need a degree to run a filling station, though there are people who have degrees who run filling .stations. We need education, but in balance. We also need balance in finances. We don't want to get in the same shape Michigan was in a few years ago. North Carolina is in good financial shape now. We have a surplus, and we want to keep it that way.” Generally, he said, the State needs a more conservative gov ernment. YOUTH SPEAKS At Vickers Grocery and Serv ice Station on the Pittsboro Highway, three young men sat around passing the hot after noon over beer. At first they disclaimed any knowledge of pol ROOM gt the PINES RESTAURANT Charcoal Steak Open Until 11 P.M. Ph. 942-2251 itics, any knowledge of local po litical talk, and any particular concern about State political af fairs. Finally they opened up and said they couldn’t stand Govern or Sanford, couldn’t stand the Kennedys, couldn’t stand the slow Himh of the minimum wage, disliked the sales tax, and thought the whole country was going to pot. They didn’t know anything about Jonas. They thought a Winston-Salem fella named ‘‘Bar nett’’ might run. They thought Lake might be a good man to have, but they weren’t sure. Political conversation at Vick ers’ ran steadily downhill and ended in a bog of complaint about food surpluses, wasted foreign aid, and government price supports. VIEWS AT EBEN’S Eben Merritt runs a grocery store and service station on the south side of Chapel Hill. Mer ritt’s service station is the com mercial center of the Purefoy Road-Pittsboro Road area. You can get just about anything there, in quantity, including polit v<4cad ialk. In fact, there is evi dently so much political talk that Mr. Merritt finds it best to cap sule it all in one statement: “You hear all kinds.” “All kinds” include discussion of Jordan, Jonas, Lake, Bennett, ahd the Sanford administration, as well as dimmer pottical lights. Mr. Merritt himself has the political situation sized up in a nutshell: “I feel this way. It's either Lake or Jonas, and I’d vote for either one of them— right now, that is. It may change. I’d vote Republican, sure. I think people are tired of voting for the party.” Mr. Merritt, one of Chapel Hill’s leading outdoorsmen, side tracked into a castigation of the effect the political spoils system has on hunting season regula tions. “They appoint people to these commissions who don’t know anything about hunting.” When steered back into poli tics, Mr. Merritt repeated his prediction that the next guberna torial election would be a toss up between Lake and Jonas, and added: “But if I’m busy making some money at the time, I don’t think I’ll bother with either of them.” LAKE AGAIN Jack Kirk, who manages a general store and garage in Cal vander, summed up a number of views. Standing behind his soft-drink boxes, he hesitated for a moment before the prospect of talking to a notebook. “I try not to think about it too much—it’s a mess. The Kennedy boys have been trying to shove something down people's throats before they’re ready for it. And Governor Sanford is just like a little boy who wants to go along with everything they do. “Os course there wasn’t too i much he could do about this race ' THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY problem, but I don’t think he tried to do anthing about it.” Mr. Kirk had given some thought to what he would do with his ballot in 1964. “I believe Dr. i-nitA will run, and I feel like he’ll give it a good fight. I’d rather see him as Governor than any man I know. He’s the best qualified—but any man who gets it has his work cut out for him. “I don’t know this fellow Ben nett well enough to say much about him, but the fact he’s hooked up with Sanford is enough for me right there. I would vote Republican if Bennett is nomin ated on the Democratic ticket. My neighbors would vote straight Republican before they'd go along with Bennett—not just state but national. I haven’t heard too much about Goldwater, but I think he’s probably a segre gationist just Uke myself. If he runs he'll do all right down here.” Mr. Kirk also faulted the Su preme Court decisions on inte gration for creating a good amount of local discontent. “If the Supreme Court makes a de cision there’s nothing the Gov ernor or anybody else can do about it. But I do feel that somebody needs to work against it, and begin now. I don’t think people shoula have to go along with these demonstrations by teenagers. They’re building up hatred against the colored people, and we've never had hatred for them in the South before. As long as the Negro wasn’t shoved on him, the white man had no hatred. This is the bi g question, National and State.” How did he regard the Repub lican Party, its positions and chances in 1964? “Republicans? Well they’re* probably running along about the same way as these Northern Democrats. Oh you mean the North Carolina Republicans. I guess they’ll run about the same as the North Ca rolina Democrats. I don’t know anything about this fellow Jonas. When I think about something, I do it on the spur of the moment and then do it and forget it. I vote for the man more than the party.” The economic picture troubles him too, not particularly taxes, but jobs. Three years ago he was a full-time farmer, raising 120,000 chickens a year. In 1960 the chicken business went under. “Somebody ought to do some thing for the farmer. If the farmer goes down, the Nation goes down with him to a certain extent. I went broke with chick ens in 1960, and I know a lot of other people who did the same thing. Now I just sort of run this store. Came here with the idea of buying it eventually. It’s a good business, but it isn’t ex actly what I wanted. It’s hard for a man to find the work he wants these days. “Yes, my neighbors and custo mers seem to feel about the same way I do. I haven’t heard much to the contrary.” Frank Pierce squinted over a catalogue behind a parts counter in an Efland farm implement agency. “I don’t have too much information about that sort of thing, but Jim ought to be back here in half an hour. You talk to him. Lake? (pointing a large, blunt finger for emphasis) That’s my mail. If he runs, that’s who I’ll vote for. Did the last time, too. Bennett? Don’t know the man. Republicans? No com men\. Segregation? No com ment)” With that, Mr. Pierce turned back to discussion of a loading tripod for a silo. PjUrsJ Manley Snipes manages her husband’s store in Orange drove. It is an adjunct to their large dairy farm, and also the precinct polling place for the neighborhood. “I just haven’t heard anything down here. . I don’t hear much. Now my hus band, he’s the politician. You ought tp talk to him. He’s in Hillsboro right now, though. He talks politics all the time.” Orange Grove in general seem ed to reflect Mrs. Snipes’s sunny view of things. It is dairy coun try, with large, prosperous and well-maintained farms scattered over the countryside, most of them bearing old Orange names —Lloyd, Ray, Snipes. Many of the farmers in the area were personal friends of fellow dairy man W. Kerr Scott. Mr. Scott, an informant said, spent much time in the area hunting rabbits with friends. When Mr. Scott died, many of them shifted (heir allegiance to Gov. Terry Sanford, and they are expected to support State Party Chairman Bert Ben nett without too many reserva tions. An old gentleman in the Buck horn community who chose to remain anonymous, re-asserted the general pattern. “Lake was my man, and he’s going to be again. We couldn’t afford any more of this fellow Sanford until we can get back on our feet from the last one. 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